One of Zango's distasteful actions in defense of their adware and other malicious practices was to sue anti-malware companies, and Kaspersky in particular, for designating their software as malicious and, as a result, deleting it. This suit has been making its way through the courts for years.

Just recently Kaspersky announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit fond that Kaspersky acted within the safe harbor provisions of the CDA (Communications Decency Act) in designating Zango's software as "objectionable material" and is therefore entitled to "Good Samaritan immunity."

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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever sincemuch to his own amazementhe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find See Full Bio

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